Sao Pedro de Alva
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| Region : | Centro | |||||
| Sub-region : | Region of Coimbra | |||||
| District : | Coimbra | |||||
| Concelho : | Penacova | |||||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 18 ′ N , 8 ° 10 ′ W | |||||
| Residents: | 1775 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 28.15 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 63 inhabitants per km² | |||||
| Postal code : | 3360-258 | |||||
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| Address of the municipal administration: | Junta de Freguesia de São Pedro de Alva Avenida 16 de Agosto, n.º 10 3360-258 São Pedro de Alva |
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São Pedro de Alva is a locality and former municipality in Portugal .
history
The place is documented for the first time in the surveys under King D. Dinis in the early 14th century. As São Pedro de Farinha Podre it was the seat of an independent district until the administrative reforms after the Miguelistenkrieg , when the district was dissolved on December 31, 1853 .
On February 21, 1889, the place name was changed to its current name. On August 16, 1991, São Pedro de Alva was elevated to a small town ( Vila ). In 2013, the independent community was dissolved and merged with São Paio de Mondego to form one community.
administration
São Pedro de Alva was a parish ( freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Penacova . On June 30, 2011 the community had 1775 inhabitants on an area of 28.2 km².
The municipality consisted of the following localities:
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In the course of the municipal reorganization of Portugal on September 29, 2013, the municipality of São Pedro de Alva was merged with São Paio de Mondego to form the new municipality União das Freguesias de São Pedro de Alva e São Paio de Mondego . The seat of the new municipality was São Pedro de Alva.
Personalities
- Lourenço de Santa Maria e Melo (1704–1783), Archbishop of Goa and the Algarve
- António José de Almeida (1866–1929), politician born in Vale de Vinha, Prime Minister 1916/17, President 1919–23
- Maurício Vieira de Brito , engineer, 1957–1962 President of Benfica Lisbon
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos (* 1940), sociologist and author, professor at the University of Coimbra
- José Alberto Carvalho (* 1967), journalist, news anchor for TVI
The Catholic pastor and missionary Américo Monteiro de Aguiar (1887-1956) was the founder of various charitable institutions and worked significantly in São Pedro de Alva.
Antonio José de Almeida
Statue of Padre Américo in Porto
Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2010 in Porto Alegre, Brazil)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
- ↑ Portrait of all district communities on the website of the district administration ( memento of the original from February 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 21, 2015
- ↑ Legal text (Portuguese; PDF access 2.4 MB), accessed on February 20, 2015
